Our first travel trailer. I don't remember camping much with my family as a kid. This is likely because we always had the same vacation destination: a family plot in Baldwin, MI. There was no cabin there. Instead, there were two structures: a small, silver camper and an old single-wide trailer. The silver camper is gone but the single-wide still sits there and is used by extended family members to this day. It wasn't until I was a teenager that my step-mom and dad bought a pop-up trailer and we started camping elsewhere in the state. My memory isn't the greatest, but I'm almost certain they got the pop-up after I started dating Ken. Eventually, my parents upgraded to a fifth wheel that my dad still pulls around to various nearby camping spots. Ken, by contrast, didn't have a set vacation destination growing up. His family camped. They started out with a truck-bed camper, I believe, and eventually upgraded to a fifth wheel. Ken and I vacationed both in Baldwin an
I was very intrigued when I saw that it was another TED video, because I remember enjoying last years video that you posted also. I have taken so much from this video. I have taken things from it as a scrapbooker, as a teacher, and as a grad student. Thank you as always for showing me a different perspective than where I am looking.
ReplyDeleteI was very moved by this speech, too. In many ways I found it liberating. Being able to attribute my success or failure to something outside of myself sure does take a lot of pressure off!
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